swv - "right here" (1993)

when i got the shoot tha pump compilation, "right here" was a half-remembered remnant from totp; i had probably never even considered liking it or disliking it (i suspect even when i was about eleven though i must have noticed the horrible faux-pas of those jockey trousers in the video! swv's image has consistently derailed their career! and i don't just mean one of them looking like a man). anyway, shoot tha pump had this tune by dj mister cee where he opens with a snatch of live biggie repeating over and over "where brooklyn at? where brooklyn at?" and then in come the achingly pretty chords from "right here" (or the track it sampled but i've never heard that) - this is the kind of context head fuck it takes for me to realize i love a record sometimes! (i still love the mister cee song too. its true-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.)